03-09-2010, 12:40 AM
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Sha Tin
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 20,855
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Originally Posted by Riot
We could talk about all the elderly having operations in Mexico, because they can't afford healthcare in the US.
I stopped into a grocery pharmacy to buy some drugs for a friends sick barn cat today. Amoxicillin liquid $4. Amoxicillin-clavalunic acid (Pfizer's Augmentin in human terms, better for patient, been around forever, not much more expensive than amoxi in the animal healthcare arm of Pfizer drugs) was $40.
That's outrageous theft, pure and simple. To give one drug away with one hand, while behind the back with the other hand grabbing far more than both drugs together are worth.
Oh, yes, and that was the "professional discount" price, discounted off the price the client would have had to pay ($46) if the uninsured client purchased it herself.
Yes, I'd like an evil world of socialized medicine, where everyone pays $8 for Amoxi, and $12 for Augmentin.
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You are comparing the quality of medical care and the consumer cost of meds? |
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